Re: Determining if a special input method is active - was Detecting double byte input

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Wed Apr 13 23:39:09 2005

Rather than "let's just say," you should actually explain your problem.
I am at a loss to assist further without more info.


On Apr 13, 2005, at 2:28 PM, John Pattenden wrote:

> Lets just say I am hamstrung by some limitations related to 
> QuickDraw and Carbon event handling.
>
> I can work around them if I know when a special input method is 
> active - I do not want nor need to write my own method.
>
> i guess I could look for the command-space hot key, but that still 
> would not tell me what the current input method is.
>
> So to be specific the problem is... I need to know when a special 
> input method is active..  is there something like a 
> getCurrentInputMethod API?
>
> john
>
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 3:00 PM, John Stiles wrote:
>
>

>> Please be more specific about what the problem is. It really 
>> sounds like you are trying to tiptoe around actually supporting 
>> text encodings. That'll  be easy to get 90% correct, but good luck 
>> with the last 10%. :) You might be interested to know these trivia 
>> tidbits:
>> - CFStrings and NSStrings are interchangeable
>> - Carbon can render a CFString without glitches, even if there are 
>> Japanese or other Unicode characters in it
>> Trying to get this to work based on which input method is active 
>> is almost certainly a broken approach.
>>
>>
>> On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:36 AM, John Pattenden wrote:
>>
>>

>>>  I think I've narrowed down the problem I want to solve after 
>>> reading some pretty informative posts on the list.
>>>
>>>  Here is a piece of a post from Douglas Davidosn
>>>
>>> "Now, in most cases the key events will come back to the view 
>>> either as insertText: (for ordinary key presses with an ordinary 
>>> keyboard) or as doCommandBySelector: (for special keys like 
>>> delete, return, etc.), as the NSResponder.h comments mention. 
>>> However, if a special input method like Kotoeri is active, then 
>>> something else will happen.  To handle those cases, NSTextView 
>>> conforms to the NSTextInput protocol."
>>>
>>> So what I'd like to know ahead of time is if a "special input 
>>> method" is active.
>>>
>>> This is highly specific need related to sending characters to 
>>> Carbon/QuickDraw from Cocoa.
>>>
>>> I want to let characters pass through if no  "special input 
>>> method" is active and do something else otherwise..
>>>
>>> Command Space toggle between modes and presumably sets some sort 
>>> of system global, is that what I need to get at?
>>>
>>> John Pattenden
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